Even though the controls are not the best, the game still delivers a fun playthrough. It just feels nice to be a dragon that runs and gets richer while saving his friends.
I like just being a little dragon running around and collecting things.
Raced a friend to see who could clear any% in under an hour first (I won of course). This is actually a pretty boring game to play casually but it's really fun to speedrun, helped by it's more open-ended progression. The visuals and music are also incredible, but that goes without saying. Giving it a 4, but if I was rating a casual playthrough it'd probably be a 2.5 or a 3.
This is so charming. The gameplay is pretty basic and doesn't change much but it gets the job done. Really, you play this game for the soundtrack and the art style. Very chill, but with some tricky moments.
high quality game right here fellas
O jogo é bom, mas por conta de ser um jogo de ps1, ele possui uma péssima qualidade. Eu não me diverti muito jogando esse jogo. Eu me perdi em várias partes do mapa e, não entendi como faz para completar ele. Estou jogando ele, ainda não terminei. Más para algumas pessoas pode ser legal jogar esse jogo!
The start of the series. Pros: light-hearted collect-a-thon, on the easier side of things; short and fun. Cons; simplistic, sometimes too much; bosses is practically inexistent.
I have no clue how many times I've played through this over the years, but it's the first time I found everything. Normally I'll try to find what I can but elect to skip past something if it's a bit too tricky for my patience, so it's rad that whatever mindset I was in allowed to persevere and obtain 100% completion!
Having also found everything in Spyro 2/3 (albeit in 2019 and 2017 respectively), this means I've finally 100%-ed the entire original trilogy after playing them on/off for roughly 14 years. Heck yes!
I also did something a bit unusual, where instead of playing through all the levels in each world before moving on to the next, I'd find whatever I needed to advance to the next world and immediately head on over. This allowed me to reach the fourth world within roughly an hour, and I then spent the rest of my playthrough bouncing back and forth between all the worlds to play through the levels I'd skipped past.
This really breathed new life into the game, using its freedom to experience levels in totally different orders from what I'm used to. I'd bounce back and forth between the earlier simpler stages and the later trickier ones, noticing greater contrasts in the architecture (like how Ice Cavern has a lot of the "Peace Keepers" towers and buildings but frozen over) and enjoying a more varied experience overall.
I get why the looser structure can feel a bit repetitive when you're doing the same thing of "go in, find what you can, leave", but the way you're allowed to experience a lot of this makes it more interesting for me to replay than 2 and sometimes even 3 - despite those having more varied missions and level designs.
Always nice to revisit the Spyro games, and even nicer to discover something new that I can bring into future playthroughs. : )
Having also found everything in Spyro 2/3 (albeit in 2019 and 2017 respectively), this means I've finally 100%-ed the entire original trilogy after playing them on/off for roughly 14 years. Heck yes!
I also did something a bit unusual, where instead of playing through all the levels in each world before moving on to the next, I'd find whatever I needed to advance to the next world and immediately head on over. This allowed me to reach the fourth world within roughly an hour, and I then spent the rest of my playthrough bouncing back and forth between all the worlds to play through the levels I'd skipped past.
This really breathed new life into the game, using its freedom to experience levels in totally different orders from what I'm used to. I'd bounce back and forth between the earlier simpler stages and the later trickier ones, noticing greater contrasts in the architecture (like how Ice Cavern has a lot of the "Peace Keepers" towers and buildings but frozen over) and enjoying a more varied experience overall.
I get why the looser structure can feel a bit repetitive when you're doing the same thing of "go in, find what you can, leave", but the way you're allowed to experience a lot of this makes it more interesting for me to replay than 2 and sometimes even 3 - despite those having more varied missions and level designs.
Always nice to revisit the Spyro games, and even nicer to discover something new that I can bring into future playthroughs. : )
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Booted this game up to chill the other night, ended up pulling an all nighter getting 120%. This game kicks ass and is one of the only 3D platformers that I've played that doesn't really have a low point anywhere in the game. There is no "that one part". My only real problems with the game are that the controls can take a bit to get used to and that sometimes you get in the "one last gem" scenario with not much to do about it, which Reignited addresses anyway by adding the Sparx compass from 2 and 3. Even then, I still slightly prefer the original because of it's gorgeous low-poly aesthetics, though I still adore the game no matter what.
Great game! I played this first when I was young and getting introduced into gaming, and while I never truly fell in love with the platforming genre, Spyro the Dragon still holds a massive place in my heart.
Of course, being a game from 1998, it has its... Many issues. However, even to this day I still think the game holds up. If nothing else, the soundtrack is phenomenal. Spyro as a character is very fun and witty, though I never cared much controlling him. Unsure if it was a problem with our old system since it was older, but the controls did feel a little clunky at times (things not responding as quick as they should, for example).
I am giving this a solid 3.5/5.
Of course, being a game from 1998, it has its... Many issues. However, even to this day I still think the game holds up. If nothing else, the soundtrack is phenomenal. Spyro as a character is very fun and witty, though I never cared much controlling him. Unsure if it was a problem with our old system since it was older, but the controls did feel a little clunky at times (things not responding as quick as they should, for example).
I am giving this a solid 3.5/5.
I wasn't feeling this game at first, but I've gotten probably halfway through the game at the time of this review and felt compelled to drop what I was doing to state my thoughts. The level design is so great, there's so much you can do, so many fun secrets to find, so much shit to collect, and so much personality imbued in the animations and voice acting of the characters.
This is the kind of game that has that "oh my god, you can DO that???" magic to it. The kind of magic that makes you talk about the game with your friends at the playground, trading secrets that one of you found and not the other.
In the early game, a lot of the dragons you rescue just sorta regurgitate manual information or obvious stuff you could figure out on your own, and that's the part of the game that didn't sell me at first. The first few levels are a little too standard. But then, they start dropping level-specific hints that help you start to piece things together that aren't as obvious, and they start to get way more creative with the sort of things you can do in the levels.
Not every level is a winner, but after enjoying Cliff Town and Ice Cavern, and then High Caves blowing me away, I think it's cemented itself as one of my favorite 3D platformers of all time. My only real complaint is that the camera controls bugged me with no way to invert them (L2 turns the camera to show the right, and R2 turns left), and some of the jumps in this game aren't very forgiving. You fall kinda fast with the glide so they expect you to be at the very peak of your jump and jump right at the edge of a platform to make certain jumps. Otherwise, the game's fantastic.
This is the kind of game that has that "oh my god, you can DO that???" magic to it. The kind of magic that makes you talk about the game with your friends at the playground, trading secrets that one of you found and not the other.
In the early game, a lot of the dragons you rescue just sorta regurgitate manual information or obvious stuff you could figure out on your own, and that's the part of the game that didn't sell me at first. The first few levels are a little too standard. But then, they start dropping level-specific hints that help you start to piece things together that aren't as obvious, and they start to get way more creative with the sort of things you can do in the levels.
Not every level is a winner, but after enjoying Cliff Town and Ice Cavern, and then High Caves blowing me away, I think it's cemented itself as one of my favorite 3D platformers of all time. My only real complaint is that the camera controls bugged me with no way to invert them (L2 turns the camera to show the right, and R2 turns left), and some of the jumps in this game aren't very forgiving. You fall kinda fast with the glide so they expect you to be at the very peak of your jump and jump right at the edge of a platform to make certain jumps. Otherwise, the game's fantastic.
spyro is highkey more fun to control than jak